1984 - The Graphic Novel (Relié)

Biographie de George Orwell

George Orwell was born in 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, India, the son of a British colonial civil servant. He was educated at Eton, and in 1922 joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, resigning in 1927 to become a writer. From 1933 to 1949 he published several novels and works of non-fiction. The tremendous success of his 'fairy story' Animal Farm (1945) was surpassed only with the publication, in 1949, of his masterpiece, Nineteen-Eighty-Four.
Orwell wrote the final pages of the novel in a remote house on the island of Jura, in the Scottish Hebrides, where he worked feverishly in between periods in hospital due to pulmonary tuberculosis. He died a few months after its publication, in January 1950. Fido Nesti was born in Sao Paulo in 1971, and has worked in illustration and comics for over thirty years. His drawings can be seen in the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper and in New Yorker magazine, as well as in various books and on covers.
He has previously illustrated a comic strip adaptation of the Portuguese epic poem The Lusiads (Os Lusfadas em Quadrinhos, 2006) and a graphic novel (A máquina de Goldberg, 2012). Nineteen Eighty-Four had a great impact on him when he first read it in the year 1984, while at school, and he is still deeply impressed by the way the dystopian world created by Orwell is becoming ever more real. He lived in Airstrip One for a year, between 2000 and 2001.